[Fedora-livecd-list] /var/tmp/imgcreate-* : Can't umount
Bruno Wolff III
bruno at wolff.to
Sun Sep 26 17:17:33 UTC 2010
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 18:12:20 +0100,
James Heather <j.heather at surrey.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> And sometimes you have to delete the loop device manually:
>
> losetup -d /dev/loop0
>
> (or whatever loop device was used).
>
> It's boring enough that I've often intended to write a quick script to
> do it (but, of course, I've never got round to it).
That should eventually be able to go away. I am not sure when it changed,
but you don't need to use losetup with at least recent stuff. I haven't
looked into the details, but we should stop using it when it safe to
do so for stuff that we care about.
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